Keri's NEA Blog

Montage video Before completing my own montage video we were tasked to watch the two videos bellow to see famous examples used in films. The first being the married life montage in UP and the other being the training montage in Rocky. These two clips were extremely inspiring and allowed us to develop our own ideas for our theme of day 6444, the average number of days a 17 year old has been alive for. This is my own short montage with the stimulus of 6444 days:  Cuts and transitions video In today's lesson we learnt more about cuts and transitions, we watched the YouTube clip bellow which extended my knowledge more. from this we then were tasked to create our own video about cuts and transitions with examples. in my group was Emily, Henry and Joe. We worked together to create our own video. Both of these tasks have helped me see and practice using a range of techniques. i really enjoyed completing this wor...

Horror Experimental Makeup In today's lesson we were given floor, red food dye, a fake wound, and wax to create two fake injuries. My group and i created two wounds, one of the face of Henry and the other on the arm of Joe. in both these wounds we used plastic cutlery to add depth to out piece. we also used dry mud when mixing the floor and red food dye together to create a more textured blood liquid.       

Dragons Den' Pitch planning

What's in the news? https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/richard-hammond-and-family-gassed-and-robbed-as-they-slept-in-french-holiday-villa-a3925596.html Plot Synopsis 5 min film either 1- family talking about the horrific event 2- as is you where there 3- flash backs If i was to take this story from the current news and turn it into a short 5min film, i would do this by the film being a monologue from an actor playing Richard Hammond, and when in certain areas of the house he would have flash backs from the robbery. intro- The actor playing Richard Hammond sitting by himself in an empty room of the villa that was broken into. a chair in the middle of the room clips from behind him. close ups to his face with his eyes just staring into the distance. *footsteps* - creaking floor boards His head quickly moves, close up to his eyes - pupils getting bigger. Then his monologue about the attack starts - "it all ...

Why are there short films? A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits".  Short films are generally used by filmmakers to gain experience or prove their talent in order to gain   funding   for future films from private investors, entertainment companies, or   film studios . Short films are used for entertainment, to express a message and for film makers to gain experience. What is the point of them? Short films are generally used by filmmakers to gain experience or prove their talent in order to gain   funding   for future films from private investors, entertainment companies, or   film studios . Short films allow a film maker to show off their talent in hope to be commissioned to complete o...

Research into existing student made short films As well as watching and researching into professionally made films we have also looked into films created by students. A key difference i found when watching a range of films of different genres created by students is some lack the professional feel, in ways such as the costume used for the actors, the limited camera angles and edited sequences. One key issue that has stood out is the setting, some students have been able to gain access to settings which match their intentions of their film. However some have almost limited themselves by reusing the same setting within their film. An example of this is The Blonde. This short film is about a day which has gone wrong in some aspects due to the change of the actors hair colour to blonde. This film starts with a really strong introduction where there are lots of short snippets of hair dryers, straighteners , h air curlers all im...

Mise-en-scene Mise-en-scene - the arrangement of the scenery, props, etc. on the stage of a theatrical production or on the set of a film. Mise-en-scene focuses on what is to be filmed. It focuses on Setting, hair and make up, costume, lighting, character expression and movement and props.